But I'll accept it for my granddaughter.' ''įor years, her order had been part of Shorey's ``customer wants'' list, a vast file of 3-by-5 cards where all requests go whenever a standard book search - phone calls and advertising in antiquarian-book journals - proves fruitless after three or four months. Homer Henderson, who has worked at Shorey's since 1974, recalls the response of one customer who was told that her long-sought book had finally arrived: `` `Well,' she said, `I ordered it for my daughter.
Such stories are legion, for Shorey's has been pulling off similar feats for a full century: The family-run institution is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, easily making it the oldest bookstore in Seattle and one of the oldest in the nation. She is not alone in her astonishment and delight. ``I just looked at this notice, showed it to my husband and we each broke out laughing,'' wrote Turner. On June 12, 1990, Shorey's informed her they finally had located the book. Roberts, ``The Grandeur and Misery of Man,'' which was published in 1955 by Oxford University Press. Shorey's apparently never gives up.''Īt Shorey's Bookstore on May 21, 1971, Turner ordered an out-of-print book by David E. ``I was not just pleased to have the book found, but stunned by the fact that it took nineteen years to find it. Nada.``How is this for doggedness?'' an amazed North Seattle woman, Alma Turner, recently wrote The Times. Genie thinks that is AWESOME until he realizes Ernie has no interest in learning how to shoot. It's his fourteenth birthday, and, Grandpop says to become a man, you have to learn how to shoot a gun. Then Ernie lets him down in the bravery department. And when he finds the secret room that Grandpop is always disappearing into-a room so full of songbirds and plants that it's almost as if it's been pulled inside-out-he begins to wonder if his grandfather is really so brave after all. How does he match his clothes? Know where to walk? Cook with a gas stove? Pour a glass of sweet tea without spilling it? Genie thinks Grandpop must be the bravest guy he's ever known, but he starts to notice that his grandfather never leaves the house-as in NEVER. Thunderstruck, Genie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he hides it so well (besides wearing way cool Ray-Bans). The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia-in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. In this "pitch-perfect contemporary novel" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award-winning author Jason Reynolds explores multigenerational ideas about family love and bravery in the story of two brothers, their blind grandfather, and a dangerous rite of passage.
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